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Definition of test

"test" in the noun sense

1. trial, trial run, test, tryout

trying something to find out about it

"a sample for ten days free trial"

"a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"

2. test, mental test, mental testing, psychometric test

any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc

"the test was standardized on a large sample of students"

3. examination, exam, test

a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge

"when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions"

4. test, trial

the act of undergoing testing

"he survived the great test of battle"

"candidates must compete in a trial of skill"

5. test, trial, run

the act of testing something

"in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"

"he called each flip of the coin a new trial"

6. test

a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins

"test" in the verb sense

1. test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay

put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

"This approach has been tried with good results"

"Test this recipe"

2. screen, test

test or examine for the presence of disease or infection

"screen the blood for the HIV virus"

3. quiz, test

examine someone's knowledge of something

"The teacher tests us every week"

"We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"

4. test

show a certain characteristic when tested

"He tested positive for HIV"

5. test

achieve a certain score or rating on a test

"She tested high on the LSAT and was admitted to all the good law schools"

6. test

determine the presence or properties of (a substance)

7. test

undergo a test

"She doesn't test well"

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Quotations for test

Calamity is the test of integrity. [ Richardson ]

The test of sincerity is fruitfulness. [ Canon Farrar ]

Virtue rejoices in being put to the test.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. [ George W. Curtis ]

In order to estimate a man, one must know how to test him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. [ John Ruskin ]

Reason is the test of ridicule - not ridicule the test of truth. [ Warburton ]

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship. [ Hazlitt ]

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. [ Froude ]

Be purity of life the test, leave to the heart, to heaven the rest. [ Sprague ]

To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries. [ La Bruyère ]

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest? [ Waller ]

To make the common marvellous, as if it were a revelation, is the test of genius. [ Lowell ]

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others. [ Lew Wallace ]

A balloon sent up to ascertain the direction of the wind; any test of public feeling. [ French ]

Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth. [ Crabbe ]

Extremes of fortune are true wisdom's test, and he's of men most wise who bears them best. [ Cumberland ]

Neatness, and its reverse, among the poor, are almost a certain test of their moral character. [ Dr. Whitaker ]

To test the Reality we must see it on the tightrope. When the verities become acrobats we can judge them. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The test or measure of poetic genius is to read the poetry of affairs, to fuse the circumstance of today. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Time, the corrector when our judgments err, the test of truth and love; sole philosopher, for all besides are sophists. [ Byron ]

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves. [ Bishop Whately ]

Instead of having answers on a math test, they should just call them impressions and it you got a different impression so what, can't we all be brothers? [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite - variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite - energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not. [ Ruskin ]

No man ever stood lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure there is greater anxiety to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. I sometimes try my acquaintances by some such test as this - who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee. [ Thoreau ]

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. [ Carlyle ]

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